True Lord Chilong

The mountain flowers are blooming and the vegetation is lush.

At dusk, the green hills are getting darker, and a peach tree grows against the rock.

Jiang Yin rubbed his eyes and woke up under the gorgeous peach tree.

"Dream again."

Yes, he had that dream again.

In the dream, there are high-rise buildings, iron birds flying in the sky, iron horses running on the ground, and people in the house are studying artificial suns.

He lived in his dream for more than twenty years, and suddenly one day he was hit and killed by an iron bull pulling dirt.

Then he suddenly woke up.

Looking back, I turned out to be just a stone sculpture in the peach blossom forest on Fulongping.

I have seen wildfires burning mountains, heard mountain torrents roaring, he was tied to a horse when literati sang harmony, and he served as a wine table when mountain demons gathered.

I have also heard the immortals talk about Taoism, and seen the incense of the locals.

I have just been confused for decades, why are I so sober today?

Looking around, I saw tangled peach roots, colorful fallen flowers, occasional mountain bees flying out of the remaining pistils, young rabbits looming in the grass nests, dusk clouds flowing, and the trees full of crimson. It seems to people that it is a corner of Wuling and a corner of the peach garden.

Jiang Yin touched his head. He felt so comfortable for the first time in so many years of stone carving.

So he stood up from under the peach tree.

——I saw a green chilong stone sculpture pulling its body out of the soil.

This stone carving was probably created in the Han Dynasty. It has a tiger head and a dragon body, with a powerful shape, ears standing upright like shaved bamboo, and thick eyes. Although there are no dragon horns on the forehead, the dragon body is winding in three ways, with moss spreading in the gaps between the scales, just like a vivid green cloak.

Jiang Yin stretched himself out under the peach tree, then stretched his sinuous body of about ten feet into a long length.

He wanted to take two more steps, but found that his tail had already grown into the roots of the peach tree.

Jiang Yin had no choice but to turn around and tear them apart one by one. However, as time went by, some roots had grown into the teacup-sized scales and had long since become part of his body.

There was even a green shoot.

After taking a few steps forward, Jiang Yin saw a human child on the green rock under the peach tree.

Wearing clean clothes, he had an open package in his hand, which contained several pieces of cake, two pieces of flint, and a knife.

Jiang Yin recognized this person.

He is the foolish son of a stonemason in Tianshui Town, Fulongpingxia. His brother and sister-in-law brought him here a few days ago. They only said that their father was dead and they could not afford it. They hoped that the mountain god could bless their younger brother.

But now he is dead.

Jiang Yin took a look and found two small tooth marks on the child's legs.

I think there are no mountain gods in Fulongping, but there are many poisonous snakes. He eventually died in the mouth of the poisonous snakes.

Jiang Yin sighed, took off the spreading green moss from his body, covered the child's body, stamped his feet again, and his body sank into the soil.

As soon as the moss goes away, the bluestone texture fades away and becomes a vivid color.

The tiger's head hangs slightly, the frosty pupils reflect the burning peach blossoms, the dragon's tail is lightly coiled, and the iron scales hold the fluttering stamens. Two balls of green water vapor curled out from his nostrils, then circled in the air and landed on his four claws and the dragon's tail peach branches.

The stone quality of his body has faded away, which means that he has truly become a spirit.

Essential people, things become more spiritual with age.

All metals, stones, bones, wood, utensils and relics, over the years, can inspire the beauty of the sun and the moon and absorb the spirits of heaven and earth, so that they can gather energy to connect with the gods and generate soul consciousness within them.

Whether it is dead or alive, its body can be supported by false objects. It can be transformed freely, and its magic is self-generated. It understands people's words and understands the blame, which is called the essence of things.

It’s just that he doesn’t want to go down the mountain for the time being.

What’s good at the foot of the mountain?

It’s just a more backward and ignorant Vanity Fair.

He has been a man for more than 20 years, and he is fed up with the rigid rules and regulations. This time he has been doing stone carving for decades, and finally became a master, and became the chi dragon in the mountains. Rather than wallowing in the mud, it is better to be a carefree stone dragon in Fulongping.

According to his hazy memory over the past few decades, he is not the only monster in the world. There are real immortals and gods above the nine heavens. If he becomes an immortal, he should be able to live freely and freely, right?

After figuring out the joints, Jiang Yin moved his four claws and headed deeper into the mountain.

It’s just that he was born with four claws, and he was not familiar with the chilong body, which is about ten feet long and as thin as a rafter. As he walked, he would somehow step on the clouds and take off, but he could only fly more than ten steps, and was only ten feet off the ground before he fell crookedly down again.

This peach blossom forest is simply far away in the mountains. There are not many people there. At most, the beasts in the mountains are scared by his ups and downs and flee in all directions. Other than that, there is nothing important.

Jiang Yin flew like this for half a day, and finally found a deep pool in the mountains when the moon was at the top.

This pool is hidden on the mountainside behind Fulongping. It is surrounded by lush ancient trees and the water in the pool is dark. Although it is late spring, there is still a cold air coming from afar.

The rocks beside the pool are staggered and covered with moss. When you go around the mountain col, you can see the peach forest in Fulongping, which winds along the mountain. When you look at it under the moonlight, you can see the clouds are steaming and the fallen flowers are colorful. It is so brilliant.

Chilong loves water. Jiang Yin became a spirit from the Chilong stone carving. Naturally, he is not exempt from vulgarity. He chuckled lightly, rose up into the clouds rather abruptly, and fell into the pool.

The moon shadow was shattered on the surface of the pool, turning into thousands of silver foils swaying with the waves.

Jiang Yin turned over in the water. The peach branches on his tail were wetted by the pool water, and he slowly fell to the bottom of the pool.

The water in this pool is extremely clear, and the moonlight penetrates through the water. At first, you can see thousands of floating dust and some palm-sized silverbait drifting in the water, and then there is a faint darkness.

After chasing these whitebait for a while, Jiang Yin came across a patch of pebbles of different sizes at the bottom of the pool. Looking up, the full moon like a lamp had disappeared.

It might be bitingly cold here to ordinary people, but it was just right for him.

Jiang Yin found a stone of suitable size at the bottom of the pond and placed it comfortably on it.

He had been running around for half the night, and he was a little tired. Not only was the water cold, but there was also a rare silence, and he fell asleep not long after.

In the dream, there seemed to be many people calling him, calling him, pulling him, and chasing him, but Jiang Yin thought they were noisy, so he wanted to sweep them all away with his tail.

But when the dragon's tail moved, they turned into a deep mist, rising and falling around him.

Jiang Yin looked at the water vapor, and suddenly his heart moved, and then he realized that the mist should be the vitality mentioned by those mountain spirits and Taoist immortals.

But don’t they all say that the vitality is dull and stiff, and even after spending a lot of effort, it can’t attract a single point?

What is this shouting and screaming about?

Jiang Yin suppressed the annoyance that disturbed his dream and took a gentle breath into the mist, imitating the way the spirits worshiped the moon.

The water in the pool remained motionless, but the mist in the dream surged towards Chilong like a tide.

The mist symbolizing the element of water is as mighty as the tide of a river, surging all night long.

The Jade Rabbit ran around, the Golden Crow soared, and the pond water slowly turned from ice-cold to cool.